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4 ادهن أد أدهن إِد إِدهن ادهن دهن ودى آد آدهن , inf. n. إِِدْهَانٌ: see 1, first sentence: and see 3, in six places. [See also its act. part. n., below.] ― -b2- الإِِدْهَانُ is also syn. with الإِِبْقَآءُ, which, accord. to IAmb, is the primary signification: in the copies of the K erroneously written الإِِنْقَآءُ. (TA.) One says, لَا تُدْهِنْ عَلَيْهِ, meaning لَا تُبْقِ عَلَيْهِ [Show not thou mercy to him; or pity not him; or pardon not him]. (IAmb, TA.) And مَا أَدْهَنْتَ إِِلَّا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ, i. e. مَا أَبْقَيْتَ [Thou didst not show, or hast not shown, mercy, save to thyself]. (Lh, TA.) ― -b3- One says also, أَدْهَنْتُ فِى أَمْرِهِ, meaning I fell short in his affair, or case. (JK.) -A2- And أُدْهِنَ He (a camel) was affected with the vertigo termed دُهْن. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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